17, Main Street is a Grade II listed building in the Rutland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 1984. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
17, Main Street
- WRENN ID
- last-spandrel-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rutland
- Constituency
- Rutland and Stamford MP: Alicia Kearns (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 February 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 17, Main Street, Cottesmore, LE15 7DH
- OS grid reference
- SK 901 134
- Coordinates
- 52.71135, -0.66735
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 17, Main Street is a cottage dating back to 1775. It is constructed from coursed rubble stone with a Collyweston slate roof, stone-coped gables, and red brick end stacks. The main entrance is at the rear of the property. The front elevation has 1½ storeys, featuring two 2-light dormers over an outshut, a 2-light casement window, two doors, and one blocked 1-light window. A stone tablet carved with "John Abby, 1775" marks the front. The rear of the cottage, facing the road, has three 2-light windows, with a 2-light dormer above. To the left, as viewed from the road, is an extension that incorporates garage doors, a 2-light dormer, and a 2-light window on the first floor. The interior includes an inglenook fireplace and a chamfered stopped ceiling beam with run-out stops.
Local climate
17, Main Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2013
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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